Ancient States and Empires Part 37

By Dr. THEODOR MOMMSEN.

Translated, with the author's sanction and additions, by the Rev. W. P.

d.i.c.kSON, Regius Professor of Biblical Criticism in the University of Glasgow, late Cla.s.sical Examiner in the University of St. Andrews. With an Introduction by Dr. LEONHARD SCHMITZ.

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FOOTNOTES

M1 The Creation.

M2 The garden of Eden.

M3 Adam and Eve.

M4 Primeval Paradise.

M5 Situation of Eden.

M6 Glory of Eden.

M7 The temptation.

M8 The Devil.

M9 His a.s.sumption of the form of a serpent.

M10 The disobedience of Eve.

M11 The Fall of Adam.

M12 The effect.

M13 The penalty.

M14 Introduction of sin.

M15 Expulsion from paradise.

M16 The mitigation of the punishment.

M17 Industry-one of the fundamental conditions of life.

M18 Cain and Abel.

M19 The descendants of Cain.

M20 The deluge.

M21 The probable condition of the antediluvian world.